Chamber into the X Dimension

Chamber into the X Dimension
Start date:	August 30th, 1936
End date:	March 7th, 1937
# of strips:	28 (28 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Circus People"
Followed by:	"Prince Paulo the Tyrant"

"Chamber into the X Dimension" is the 5th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

Mandrake and Lothar meet professor Theobold who has invented a way to project people into the "X" Dimension. He has already projected his daughter into the "X" Dimension, but now he is unable to bring her back. Mandrake and Lothar volunteer to be themselves projected into the "X" Dimension, in order to seek Fran.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Professor Theobold, a scientist

One-time characters

• Fran, daughter of Professor Theobold
• Wheel men, men of living-metal (in the X Dimension)
• Tolac, a man (in the X Dimension)
• Firebird, made of animated coal (in the X Dimension)
• Carnivfern, a man-eating plant (in the X Dimension)
• Plant people, living plants (in the X Dimension)
• Syca, a tre man
• Popo, a tre man
• Crystal people
• Grat, chief of the flesh men

Locations

• Europe ?
• The "X" Dimension

Behind the scenes

• At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "Chamber into the X Dimension", which is lifted from the plot.
• Note: Mandrake using real magic in this story.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Argentina

• "Mandrake en Los Hombres de X", Grandes Aventuras #5 (1942) text version

France

• "La dimension X", Robinson (1937)
• "Un voyage dans l'avenir", Collection merveilleuse #7 (1939)
• "Guerre dans le monde à X dimensions", Aventures et Mystère #112 (1949)
• "Le monde à X dimensions", Mandrake roi de la magie #2 (1964)
• "Le monde à X dimensions", Mandrake roi de la magie #23 (1967)
• "La dimension X", L'âge d'or Mandrake #1 (1980)
• "Le monde à X dimensions", J'ai lu BD #58 (1988)

Italy

• "Gli uomini di cristallo", L'Audace (1937)
• "Gli uomini di cristallo", Topolino giornale #565 to #585 (1945-1946)
• "Gli uomini di cristallo", Albi d'Oro #169 (1949)
• "Gli uomini di cristallo", Super Albo #14 (1961)
• "Gli uomini di cristallo", L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake #1 (1980)
• "La dimensione X", Tavole domenicali 1935–1937 (2016)

Spain

• "El Secreto de Profesor Theobold", Aventurero #96 - #123 (1937)
• "Hacia un Mundo Desconocido", Merlin el Mago Moderno #3 (1942)
• "Hacia un Mundo Desconocido", Album Roja #2 (1944)
• "no title", Clásicos del Comic #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7 (1988)
• "La Dimensión 'X'", Mandrake #2 (1999)

Turkey

• "Gelecekte Bir Seyahat", 1001 Roman #37 - 54 (1940)

United Kingdom

• "The Chamber into the X Dimension", Mandrake the Magician - The Hidden Kingdom of Murderers: Sundays 1935–1937 (2016)

USA

• King Comics (1937)
• "In the Land of X", Feature Book #52 (1948)

Yugoslavia

• "U carstvu čuda i tajanstva" Mika Miš #116 – #155 (1937)
• (romanized as "U carstvu čuda"), Zabavnik #28 and #29 (1938)
• "U tajanstvenom svetu", Stripoteka #332/333 (1975)
• "Kristalni ljudi", Biblioteka Nostalgija #1 (1981)